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The Plutonium Files: America's Secret Medical Experiments in the... (1st Ed)
by Welsome, Eileen | HC | VeryGood
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Very Good
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- Binding
- Hardcover
- Edition
- First Edition
- Weight
- 2 lbs
- Product Group
- Book
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- ISBN
- 9780385314022
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0385314027
ISBN-13
9780385314022
eBay Product ID (ePID)
507199
Product Key Features
Book Title
Plutonium Files : America's Secret Medical Experiments in the Cold War
Number of Pages
592 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
1999
Topic
Ethics, Medical Law & Legislation, Radiation, General
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Law, Science, Medical, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.8 in
Item Weight
34.3 Oz
Item Length
9.6 in
Item Width
6.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
99-010991
Dewey Edition
21
Reviews
"... A deeply shocking and important expose ... Riveting ...Β Β Anyone who cares about America's history, moral health and future should read this book. " --Publishers Weekly, starred review Praise for Eileen Welsome: "Because of Eileen Welsome's distinguished investigative reporting, America and the world know of the human costs of deeds that some tried steadfastly to conceal, yet others can never forget." --Judges for the Selden Ring Award for Investigative Reporting "A harrowing account of inhumanity that we found to be unequaled in its significance, originality and professionalism. Singlehandedly, and with limited resources--other than her own brilliance and ingenuity--Ms. Welsome uncovered a grotesque series of experiments in which American atomic scientists turned eighteen unsuspecting citizens into human guinea pigs, with tragic results." --Judges for the Newspaper Guild Heywood Broun Award "By putting faces and names on the victims, the story of this and other atomic abuses captured the nation's attention." --Judges for the George Polk Award for National Reporting "A superb journalistic effort . . .Β Β The dedication to the task, the unwillingness to accept government stonewalling, and ultimately the impact of the work in changing government attitudes were extraordinary. It took fifty years to tell this story. The American public owes Eileen Welsome a debt of gratitude for bringing this to light." --Judges for the Scripps-Howard Foundation Public Service Award
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The
Dewey Decimal
616.9/897/00973
Synopsis
When the vast wartime factories of the Manhattan Project began producing plutonium in quantities never before seen on earth, scientists working on theΒ Β top-secret bomb-building program grew apprehensive. Fearful that plutoniumΒ Β might cause a cancer epidemic among workers and desperate to learn more about what it could do to the human body, the Manhattan Project's medical doctors embarked upon an experiment in which eighteen unsuspecting patients inΒ Β hospital wards throughout the country were secretly injected with the cancer-causing substance. Most of these patients would go to their graves without ever knowing what had been done to them. Now, inThe Plutonium Files, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Eileen Welsome reveals for the first time the breadth of the extraordinary fifty-year cover-up surrounding the plutonium injections, as well as the deceitful nature of thousands of other experiments conducted on American citizens in the postwar years. Welsome's remarkable investigation spans the 1930s to the 1990s and draws upon hundreds of newly declassified documents and other primary sources to disclose this shadowy chapter in American history. She gives a voice to such innocents as Helen Hutchison, a young woman who entered a prenatal clinic in Nashville for a routine checkup and was instead given a radioactive "cocktail" to drink; Gordon Shattuck, one of several boys at a state school for the developmentally disabled in Massachusetts who was fed radioactive oatmeal for breakfast; and Maude Jacobs, a Cincinnati woman suffering from cancer and subjected to an experimental radiation treatment designed to help military planners learn how to win a nuclear war. Welsome also tells the stories of the scientists themselves, many of whom learned the ways of secrecy on the Manhattan Project. Among them are Stafford Warren, a grand figure whose bravado masked a cunning intelligence; Joseph Hamilton, who felt he was immune to the dangers of radiation only to suffer later from a fatal leukemia; and physician Louis Hempelmann, one of the most enthusiastic supporters of the plan to inject humans with potentially carcinogenic doses of plutonium. Hidden discussions of fifty years past are reconstructed here, wherein trusted government officials debated the ethical and legal implications of the experiments, demolishing forever the argument that these studies took place in a less enlightened era. Powered by her groundbreaking reportage and singular narrative gifts, Eileen Welsome has created a work of profound humanity as well as major historical significance.
LC Classification Number
RA1231.R2W45 1999
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